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Abdul El-Sayed: “We just spent $100 billion of our money in a war we should never have fought because Israel wanted us to.”

Featuring: Abdul El-Sayed, Podcast Host, America Dissected | National

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Making sure that, that people weren't struggling under the weight of medical debt. And every time you want to take that on, people ask, how are you going to pay for it? And meanwhile, what? We just spent $100 billion of our money in a war we should never have fought because Israel wanted us to. That's after subsidizing a genocide to the tune of $22 billion ongoing. That's after backstopping apartheid. And it's not just Israel that we send our money to. (06:07–06:14)

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Asserts that the U.S. spent $100 billion on a war influenced by Israel.

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